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Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 552

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ContractsTrusts & EstatesSlaveryLaw & LiteratureFeminist Theory

Profile

Professor Adrienne Davis is renowned for her scholarship and teaching on gender and race relations; theories of justice and reparations; feminist legal theory; and law and popular culture. She has written extensively on the gendered and private law dimensions of American slavery and is the co-editor of the book, Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America (NYU Press), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. A Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, Professor Davis directs the Black Sexual Economies Project at the law school’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital. She also founded and runs the Law & Culture Initiative. Professor Davis is the past recipient of a Bellagio Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and two research grants from the Ford Foundation on such topics as black women and labor, and women, slavery, sexuality, and religion. In addition to her research and teaching, she is past chair of the Law and Humanities Section of the Association of American Law Schools and served on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals. Professor Davis clerked for the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

"Historic and Modern Social Movements for Reparations: The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) and Its Antecedents," (with A.A. Aiyetoro)," 16 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 687 (2010) (Symposium on Lawyers of Color) [SSRN]

"Making Up is Hard to Do: An Epistolary Exchange on Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom," (with R. Chang), 33 Harvard Journal of Gender and Law 1 (2010) [SSRN]